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Eliyahu Elyashar (; 10 October 1899 - 30 October 1981) was an Israeli politician and writer.


Biography

Elyashar was born in
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at a time when it was part of the
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. His father, Yitzhak Shemaya Elyashar, was the grandson of rabbi Yaakov Shaul Elyashar through his father and rabbi Raphael Meir Panigel through his mother. Elyashar's mother Rosa was the daughter of Yosef Navon and his wife Guishe Frumkin, the sister of Israel Dov Frumkin. He had several siblings, including a younger brother, Menashe Elyashar, who became a businessman and public figure. Elyashar studied medicine at the University of Beirut, as well as law in
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and Jerusalem.Eliahu Eliashar: Particulars
Knesset website
During
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he served as a junior medical officer in the
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. After the British took control of Palestine, he started working for the Mandate government in 1922, eventually managing the Trade Bureau in the Department of Customs and Trade. In 1935, he left the civil service and went into business.Eliahu Eliashar: Public Activities
Knesset website
In 1938, he became a member of the Sephardi Community Committee in Jerusalem, and also served as a member of its presidium. In 1942, he was elected its president. In the same year he started publishing and editing the weekly newspaper ''Hed HaMizrah'', which he continued to do until 1952. A member of the
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, he was amongst the leadership of the
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in Jerusalem and served as a member of the Defence Committee of the
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after Israeli independence. In the first Knesset elections in 1949 he was placed second on the
Sephardim and Oriental Communities Sephardim and Oriental Communities (, ''Sfaradim VeEdot Mizrah'') was a political party in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the Likud party. History The Sephardim and Oriental Communities party represented Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews who ...
list, and became a Knesset member when the party won four seats. He headed the party for the 1951 elections, in which it won two seats. Shortly after the elections the party merged into the
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. Prior to the 1955 elections Elyashar was amongst the party members who broke away to reform Sephardim and Oriental Communities. He again headed its list for the elections, but it received only 0.8% of the vote, failing to cross the 1% electoral threshold, resulting in Eliashar losing his seat. In 1974, Elyashar was one of the founders of the
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. Elyashar later published two books; ''Living with the Palestinians'' in 1975, and ''Living with the Jews'' in 1981. He died in October that year.


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